With statistical analysis of Weibo altmetrics indicator, the paper explored features of a typical altmetrics indicator in Chinese environment. Results show that the coverage of Weibo is below 1%. However, the coverage...With statistical analysis of Weibo altmetrics indicator, the paper explored features of a typical altmetrics indicator in Chinese environment. Results show that the coverage of Weibo is below 1%. However, the coverage is underestimated due to limitation of tracking time and objects. Weibo mentions and discusses articles mainly from disciplines like 'General', 'Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology', 'Health science', 'Medicine' and 'Life science' etc. In addition to traditional distinguished interdisciplinary journals like Nature, preprint platform and open access journal like ar Xiv, PLo S ONE and SSRN also drew much attention from Weibo. Meanwhile, 'Biology Science' and 'Medical science' have the most highlighted journals. Weibo mainly tracks latest articles, reflected in that articles tracked within 180 days occupy 68.66%, it also tracks classic articles. Weibo authors prefer to disseminate, recommend and criticize articles that are adherent to daily life, funny, useful or related to health, which conveys social value and scholarly value beyond citations. Weibo altmetrics indicator is highly scattered and concentrated. 5.1% of the articles have harvested 50% of the weibos. Besides, articles tracked by Weibo gain global attention much higher than the average level.展开更多
基金an outcome of the project “Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Altmetrics”(No.2014104010201)supported by Key Project of Special Funding from China University Fundamental Research Funding
文摘With statistical analysis of Weibo altmetrics indicator, the paper explored features of a typical altmetrics indicator in Chinese environment. Results show that the coverage of Weibo is below 1%. However, the coverage is underestimated due to limitation of tracking time and objects. Weibo mentions and discusses articles mainly from disciplines like 'General', 'Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology', 'Health science', 'Medicine' and 'Life science' etc. In addition to traditional distinguished interdisciplinary journals like Nature, preprint platform and open access journal like ar Xiv, PLo S ONE and SSRN also drew much attention from Weibo. Meanwhile, 'Biology Science' and 'Medical science' have the most highlighted journals. Weibo mainly tracks latest articles, reflected in that articles tracked within 180 days occupy 68.66%, it also tracks classic articles. Weibo authors prefer to disseminate, recommend and criticize articles that are adherent to daily life, funny, useful or related to health, which conveys social value and scholarly value beyond citations. Weibo altmetrics indicator is highly scattered and concentrated. 5.1% of the articles have harvested 50% of the weibos. Besides, articles tracked by Weibo gain global attention much higher than the average level.
